'Playing out one for the ages'

Ravens held on after power outage changed momentum of game

12:53 AM,
Feb. 4, 2013

Tim Doherty

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After its first 31 minutes, 38 seconds, Super Bowl XLVII was shaping up into about as a lopsided an affair as the late 1980s and early 1990s used to provide.

Then, after the first, official "partial interruption in electrical service" in Super Bowl history, the San Francisco 49ers-Baltimore Ravens wound up playing out one for the ages.

Holding a 22-point lead after Jacoby Jones turned in the longest play in Super Bowl history to start the second half, the Ravens had to bow up with a goal-line stand with less than two minutes left in the game to essentially preserve a 34-31 victory. ...